A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin on Monday denied a request by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to expand the list of types of photo...
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Federal judge refuses to expand Wisconsin voter ID law
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Federal judge orders Louisiana to fund Planned Parenthood for 14 days
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Federal appeals court upholds state assault weapons bans
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Federal judge rejects Obama administration’s request for immediate appeal on health care challenge
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Germany rights group files criminal complaint against high-ranking CIA official
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Federal judge allows Texas officials to deny birth certificates to children of immigrants
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Supreme Court to hear cases on patent infringement damages
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UN rights expert concerned over violence across Occupied Palestinian Territory
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Vanuatu lawmakers arrested over pardons issued while president was abroad
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Greece lawmakers approve new austerity bill
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A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana ruled Sunday that Louisiana must continue to provide Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood clinics for 14 days. Judge John deGravelles's...
A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday upheld the main parts of Connecticut and New York gun control legislation that ban semiautomatic weapons and high-capacity magazines. The...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday denied a request by the Obama administration to immediately appeal an earlier ruling that allowed a challenge to a provision of the...
The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) on Monday filed a criminal complaint against a high-ranking CIA official for mistreatment of Khaled El-Masri, a German citizen who was detained and allegedly tortured for...
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas on Friday issued a temporary order allowing Texas officials to continue denying birth certificates to children of immigrants. Earlier this year a group of undocumented...
The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in two sets of cases, involving patent infringement damages and energy preemption, respectively. The first set, Stryker Corp. v. Zimmer and Halo Electronics, Inc. v. Pulse...
UN Special Rapporteur Makarim Wibisono expressed "grave concern" Friday over the intensification of violence across Occupied Palestinian Territory. In his statement he urged Israel to "exercise restraint and to recognise that all, including Palestinians, have...
Vanuatu authorities arrested 11 lawmakers on Saturday who had last week pardoned themselves of their corruption convictions while the president was away from the country. The arrests came as President Baldwin Lonsdale revoked the pardons...
Greek lawmakers approved a bill early Saturday morning containing new austerity measures and economic overhauls under its new bailout program. All but one of the 155 members of the leftist Syriza , which now runs the government under...
